Answer Quote by Elmore Leonard

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

— Quentin Tarantino

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little…

— Ray Bradbury

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

— Grant Heslov

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would…

— Leigh Whannell

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind…

— Charlie Kaufman

Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form.

— Peter Hedges

Generally, screenplays suck.

— Grant Heslov

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it…

— Salman Rushdie